Recent Podcast Episodes

Game theory done the wrong way eliminates individual choice.

Some problems with inflation measures, inequality and social mobility, and further implications.

Tho discusses the importance of the work of Mises University, some highlights of the week, and ends with a look at Ryan McMaken's article on the Hollywood strikes.

Recorded at the Mises Institute on 27 July 2023.

Bureaucrats operate with de facto electoral unaccountability.

Free trade promotes economic progress.

The differences between the Austrian school and the mainstream begin at the most fundamental level.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

Moving policing outside of the realm of economic calculation contributes to many of the problems we see.

At a time when ethnic politics were tearing Europe apart, Ludwig von Mises believed that such ethnic devotion did more harm than good.

Do woke tech firms have monopoly power?

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2023.

In the Progressive Era (1897 to 1929) the American Medical Association made an effort to restrict the supply of doctors.

Few people understand how destructive regulations are.

Government attempts to limit “monopoly power” cannot improve well-being.

Capital is the starting point of economic calculation.

Postwar Germany was occupied, in ruins, with an economy in chaos. Germans were reduced to using cigarettes supplied by American GIs as money.

Time is an irreversible flux. Each moment has a unique place in the sequence of moments of time with respect to action.

There is no clear basis in economics, ethics, efficiency, or fairness for Minimum Wage Laws.

What is a business cycle?